Mind the Gap: Admin Activism, a Thought Piece in Process

Public ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (64) ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Rachelle Dickenson
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Indigenous Methodologies

In this article, I describe the methodology I understand as admin activism within the context of cultural institutions to consider how we may generate sustainable, productive and enjoyable relationships in decolonial work. Admin activism includes specific priorities, behaviours, and strategies associated with decolonial resistances that can be mobilized by people working within art galleries, museums, and universities. Drawing from scholarly and grassroots practices of settler responsibility and Indigenous methodologies, my professional experience as a curator and educator, as well as important lessons learned from friends, colleagues and family, I intend this article to contribute to growing toolboxes for institutional change.

scholarly journals Can Location Value Capture Pay for Transit? Organizational Challenges of Transforming Theory into Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 743-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Salon ◽  
Elliott Sclar ◽  
Richard Barone
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Organizational Mission ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Organizational Challenges ◽  
Institutional Authority ◽  
Transit Agencies ◽  
Acute Crisis

Successful public transit systems increase the value of locations they serve. Capturing this location value to help fund transit is often sensible, but challenging. This article defines location value capture and synthesizes lessons learned from six European and North American transit agencies that have experience with location value capture funding. The opportunities for and barriers to implementing location value capture fall into three categories: agency institutional authority, agency organizational mission, and public support for transit. When any of these factors is incompatible with a location value capture strategy, implementation becomes difficult. In four of the cases studied, dramatic institutional change was critical for success. In five cases, acute crisis was a catalyst for institutional change, value capture implementation, or both. Using value capture strategies to fund transit requires practitioners to both understand agency organizational constraints and view transit agencies as institutions that can transform in response to changing situations.

Bolshevik Approaches to Higher Education, 1917-1921

Slavic Review ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 818-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Mc Clelland
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Imperial Germany ◽  
Military Threat ◽  
The Social ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
National Movements ◽  
Revolutionary Regime

The period 1917-21 in Russia found the fledgling Bolshevik government engaged in desperate military struggles with imperial Germany, with several White Russian armies assisted in varying degrees by foreign troops and supplies, with national movements for independence, and with a newly restored Poland. Yet despite an ever-present military threat to the very existence of the new government, many Bolshevik leaders remained constantly aware that theirs was a revolutionary regime, with the goal of achieving a radical trans? formation of the social, economic, political, and cultural institutions they had inherited. Consequently this same period witnessed, in addition to the crucial military conflicts, several experimental efforts to achieve thoroughgoing institutional change.Higher education was one such target of reform, and this paper will describe succeeding attempts undertaken during 1917-21 to implement three radically different blueprints for reform of the higher educational system.

The Healthy Cities Movement

Urban Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 285-292
Author(s):  
Agis D. Tsouros
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
City Government ◽  
World Health ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovative Action

The World Health Association Healthy Cities movement aims to engage municipal governments in a range of activities to generate health in cities, through political commitment, institutional change, capacity building, and innovative action for health, equity and sustainable development. At core, the movement aims to put health at the heart of social, economic, and cultural agendas of city government and has been at the forefront of a global move toward recognizing cities’ potential to transform themselves to improve their residents’ health. More than 100 cities are part of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. This chapter discusses the vision behind, goals of, challenges faced by, and successes of the healthy cities movement, with an eye to lessons learned that can be applied more broadly to urban health.

scholarly journals Projection to pixel: the art of digital translations of 35MM slideshows in cultural institutions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Miller
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Technical Practice

This research paper and associated website address the growing practice of digitization in cultural institutions. Digitization provides greater access to the objects and associated research of collections; however, digitization is a subjective process and should be understood as a cultural as well as technical practice. Current digital reproductions and documentation do not do justice to time-based artworks. 35mm slideshows, in particular, are misrepresented by their digital records and, due to their imminent material and technical obsolescence, are inaccessible unless on display. This thesis responds to the pressing question: How can institutions, primarily art galleries and museums, create digital translations of slideshows produced as artworks that maintain the integrity of the original format, both contextually and materially? It seeks to find a way to create a robust digital translation of 35mm slideshows that provides a better sense of their materiality, presentation, and context.

scholarly journals Training future describers: A practice report from an audio description classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Magdalena Jankowska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Product Delivery ◽  
Academic Teacher

Over the past few years, we have been observing an exponential growth in audio description (AD). This has resulted in a growing need for trained AD professionals and, consequently, for AD training. While the ADLAB PRO project helped define the professional profile of the audio describer and produced a range of training materials, there is still considerable room for other AD training approaches to be shared with a view to inspiring AD trainers when creating their courses. Thus, this practice report presents selected exercises that I have been developing since 2009, when I first started teaching AD both at university and outside academia (e.g., during dedicated courses for broadcasters, NGOs and cultural institutions), presenting their learning outcomes and framing them within the ADLAB PRO framework of competencies for professional audio describers. All the activities offered in this article are based on my professional experience as an academic teacher and researcher and also as a professional describer and accessibility manager who overlsees the entire AD production process: from negotiating with clients through production (scripting, proofs, recording, quality control) to product delivery and on-site assistance.

Risk Mitigation and Reliability Lessons Learned From Iraq

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Kemper
Keyword(s):  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Infrastructure Systems

The engineering challenges in developing nations can be significant. This is far more the case in a non-permissive environment. The reliability of infrastructure systems can be compromised not only by direct effects of conflict, but the turnover in personnel and lack of documentation. Risk mitigation, particularly in security matters, can easily but unintentionally be compromised due to materials, construction and fabrication, lack of documentation, and making “reasonable” assumptions based on professional experience in more developed regions. This paper will examine key lessons learned in Iraq.

Letters to My 25-Year-Old Self

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Tracy Poon Tambascia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Emerging Leaders ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
Higher Education Professionals ◽  
Change In Higher Education ◽  
Future Topics

This chapter on leading equitable and inclusive change in higher education takes the form of three letters the author writes to her 25-year-old self. The epistolary style lends itself to a narrative conversation that can transcend time and identity, reflecting nearly three decades of professional experience. The letters speak to not only the author's former and much younger self, but to a generation of emerging higher education professionals who can draw upon these experiences to further their own work in educational equity. The letters are a way to both convey lessons learned and to provide perspective on the importance of authentic and substantive engagement in social justice now and in the future. Topics discussed include finding voice, framing/reframing views on culturally conscious leadership, and reimagining leadership. The chapter concludes with recommendations for emerging leaders on how to make meaningful and sustained impact on social justice and equity.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Campus Support Offices: A Qualitative Study of Establishment Experiences

NASPA Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina A. Ritchie ◽  
James H. Banning
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Coding Strategies ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
The Common ◽  
Qualitative Coding

The establishment experiences of how eight campus Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) support offices were examined using a qualitative research framework. Each GLBT office provided documentation of its experiences and these documents were analyzed using both deductive and inductive qualitative coding strategies to discover the common themes and "lessons learned." The themes of "establishment" were linked to a set of strategies and tactics documented in literature as being important to the process of institutional change within higher education.

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